The guy who owns the property next door to me. Have somebody rake the leaves, you a-hole! Two years in a row the tenant hasn't raked the leaves, and now they're blown into matted piles, the grass is all dead, big limbs six inches in diameter are fallen all over the yard, his back yard smells like the piles of dog shit that are everywhere.

There’s a place on the square in Marshfield, but I don’t know what it’s called. Bissman furniture was built here in Springfield, so it’s most abundant vs Haywood Wakefield.

Aside from our skatepark, I often skate at the park in Eureka Springs. It’s a sweet little bowl in the woods. There’s no sign, and you can’t see it from the road, so you have to know about it. I’ve never seen other skaters there. Bartlesville, ok has a super nice Evergreen park, but unfortunately it’s not one of the moonscape style parks they are known for. Big deep but mellow bowl. The gathering place in Tulsa has one of the best skateparks in this part of the country. Sick mellow bowl and a snake run. KC has an awesome bowl in the park by the WWI museum. Penn Valley I think. Big and somewhat severe, and a hair out of my league, but very nice. The skaters there absolutely shred.

I guess, but how is building more apartments going to help with that? People are gung-ho about building more apartments instead of more houses, but that's not going to help people get into houses. There is a very pro-apartment sentiment on here that makes me think people want to live in apartments, and I'm wondering what's driving that.

I'm having a hard time understanding the passion the Springfield subreddit has for living in apartments. I've never lived in one, and I don't think I've ever known somebody who wasn't a college student who did live in one, so I don't have a lot of experience to draw from. What's the appeal? I get that you don't have to mow, and some people don't like to mow, but that's all I can think of. What am I missing? People are rabid about apartments here. There has to be something amazing that I'm missing.

They could encourage their elected leaders to keep it zoned as-is. I wouldn't consider that bitching about it. That's civic engagement.

"Should have been born rich if you didn't want things to suck"

>People in Springfield, based on market studies, don't really want condos.

What's the difference between a condo and an apartment? What's the difference between a condo and a house? Why would people choose a house over a condo? Why would people choose an apartment over a condo? The answers to these questions tell us what our housing priorities should be in Springfield.

>What's the difference between a condo and an apartment?

A condo requires a decent credit score, some savings, and a good skilled job, while most people can get an apartment. But, an apartment is a constant financial loss, while a condo is an investment, and builds equity.

>What's the difference between a condo and a house?

Living in a house enables you to work on your own car, do your own projects, have a wood shop, a place to store your canoes and kayaks, grow a garden, and a multitude of other things that condo living doesn't generally afford. Condo living is generally no higher quality of life than living in an apartment.

>Why would people choose an apartment over a condo?

Either they are young and unsure of their future, like a college student, or because they have no other financial choice. There are just very few other reasons. The quality of life is the same, but the financial upsides of condos absolutely crush the financials of living in an apartment. It's insane that an adult would choose an apartment over a condo.

This begs the question: Why would the city of Springfield prioritize apartments? What is the long-term upside for Springfield?

Is there a way to re-zone this so that higher density housing can be built, but it must always be owner-occupied? Like, can we mandate that this development must be condos? I would imagine that that would be the end of it, because condos don't offer an eternity of income at the expense of the equity of the residents. Our ratios of rentals to owner-occupied are already way, way, way too high.

I can get a crate engine for $1,500, but I really want to do it myself. I recently rebuilt my transmission from a youtube video and it was surprisingly quick, cheap, and easy. I think I paid $175 for new bearings and syncros. I've had my engine apart while it was in the car before. I took the rods off and the pistons out, and I honed the cylinders and re-ringed the pistons, but it has 300,000 miles on it now and it needs a boring. It has low compression on one of the cylinders, but a fairly newly rebuilt head.

I've got a 2000 Honda Civic with a D16Y7 in it that is going to need a rebuild soon. I want to do it myself, but I've never rebuilt an automotive engine, but I'm pretty handy. Do you just take the case, rods, and crankshaft to the machine shop and have them machine them? Will they tell you how much they took off to fit specific bearings? Do you have to do your own measurements with micrometers and tell them how much to take off to fit the bearings you already bought? How do they/you find out what bearings are available? If they take material off the crank journals, do you have to buy new rods, or do the rods have bearings in them? I mostly just wonder who's in charge of making machining decisions. Does the machine shop do that, or do you have to make the decisions and tell them exactly what to do?

I didn't know there were so many 3D printers in this sub. I love 3D printing; it's one of my favorite things.

because the pharmacy is out?

edit: try the pharmacies at medical facilities. Like Burrell and Smith Glenn and Cox North all have their own pharmacies, and they would probably be less likely to run out since they are not as heavily used as like CVS and Walgreens.

I don't know much about the Ender 3, but I did help a dude get his set up after having a lot of trouble with it. None of his rail guides were tight on the rails, and the instructions it came with were abysmal. Once we got them tightened up and got the bed leveled it started working well.

What filament are you printing with? How does the software handle the auto-leveler? How does it detect the bed? (my Prusas use a Pinda proximity sensor, and my Lulzbots touch the nozzle against steel washers on the corners) Do you have to type the first layer height into Cura or Prusaslicer or whatever you use, or do you set it during a calibration routine?

Do your prints fail right off the bat, or somewhere midway through? My guess is that this is a bed-leveling or first layer height issue, or you're printing with ABS on a surface that ABS doesn't adhere to well.

Describe exactly what happens during your first layer please, and that will help a lot.

Are pharmacies not filling them? I heard there was a shortage, but I haven't heard from anybody on the ground saying they're actually seeing a shortage.

Unfortunately, the reality is that there are two sets of conflicting rules we are expected to obey while driving. The first is the written law, and the second is social norms. You can choose whichever you want to obey, that's your choice. There are penalties for breaking both sets of rules, and you have to decide which penalties are acceptable to you. On one hand, you might get a ticket for speeding (unlikely these days, it seems) or you might get somebody tailgating you for driving 15 miles an hour slower than everybody else is driving and intentionally drifting towards you while passing. It would be nice if our laws, supposedly created by the will of the people, reflected how fast we all want to drive, but for whatever reason they don't, and here we are.

I don't think parks should be managed with ROI as a high priority. Skaters are generally younger with less disposable income, and currently that means they have a facility without air conditioning, unlike every other indoor parks facility, and inadequate lighting, and nowhere to sit except folding chairs. I feel like parks should be for the benefit of the citizens, not as an income source.

Yeah, for $12 million we could have a big free skatepark, a mountain bike park, an RC track, an RC airfield, pump tracks, air conditioning at the skatepark we do have like the tennis players get, and a zillion other quality of life things that would make Springfield a fun place to DO things, rather than a place to watch minor league baseball players do fun things. I have no problem spending this money on baseball except that it's coming at the expense of things I want.

OMG yes. I drive there about every month to skate the skatepark there.

If you use old reddit on a computer it doesn't do that. Thanks for the support!

I keep asking for modest upgrades to our skatepark like lights, shade, and benches, but I keep getting told there's no money.

If you think your speed is reasonable you're not driving fast enough. We all should be driving in our zone of proximal development.

> You clearly were just looking for the slightest excuse to tell the world that you’re a great driver and everybody else just needs to practice.

This is true actually, and sadly.

I didn't say not to slow down. I hope I didn't imply that we shouldn't slow down. I'm just saying that if multiple people are honking at you and traffic is backing up behind you, that's probably unreasonably slow and the proper solution is not further speed reductions but rather increased skills.

Mostly though this is just a pebble in my shoe. It's not that big of a deal, but every year when we get weather like this most people are still unprepared for it in their driving skills, like they never expected to get winter weather again, and then they get on Reddit and complain that businesses are open and they have to go to work in these conditions and other people are out there driving like it's no big deal and it scares them.

On top of that, when you suggest to someone that their winter weather driving skills could use some improvement it's like you've just called them the worst person on the planet. People get so upset about it, which is probably because it's true. But it's true for everybody. Don't take it hard people, just get out there and practice in parking lots. It's fun!

>That's not the flex you think it is.

Practicing to be competent at something isn't a flex. It's what we do to improve ourselves. We practice math with homework, or musical instruments, or art. Why is it so odd to practice to improve something we do so often, that's so important, and requires a high degree of skill? Why is practicing driving in poor conditions such an unreasonable, controversial idea? Why do we accept people out there in heavy equipment who are unwilling to put in effort to increase our safety?

The answer is that most people in Springfield (and probably all over the country) don't consider driving something that requires skill and attention. It's not something they do but rather something that allows them to get to the grocery store or work. It's why people look at their phones while they're driving. They don't place any importance on it. They don't value the skills it takes because they don't see it as a skilled activity. They just slow way down, because that's their only option, because they haven't put in the time to allow themselves any other options.